Skip to content
Home » News » El Salvador’s world-first adoption of bitcoin endures bumpy first day

El Salvador’s world-first adoption of bitcoin endures bumpy first day

Published by
Reuters

By Nelson Renteria and Anthony Esposito SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador’s historic adoption of bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday was beset by teething problems, as an angry protest https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/salvador-street-protest-breaks-out-against-bitcoin-adoption-2021-09-07 by mistrustful citizens, technological glitches and a dip in the cryptocurrency clouded the rollout. The bold experiment got off to a bumpy start when shortly after midnight, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele complained the government-backed bitcoin app was not available on various internet platforms in…

Read More

Leave a Reply

%d bloggers like this: